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Very true. Some tracks are safer than others, to paraphrase Morrissey. Anecdotally, i see very few actual damage-inducing crashes. Maybe 1 or 2 per year at the 15 or so events I attend each year.

I await the DPi overlords.

For fuck’s sake.

http://www.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?1548322-Pulled-over-in-Florida-for-to-loud-exhaust-WTH

I hate to even type this, but, NO, you do NOT. We actually have a series of rules we call “laws” that regulate the operation of motor vehicles on our collectively shared roadways. Sometimes they can seem a bit harsh or stupid, but most of them are simple common sense that the vast majority of human beings have…

I live in Florida. The cops here are imaginary.

I recently had a Camaro SS as a rental car, it was intoxicatingly fast and loud. I loved it.

I would also tend to consider myself a better driver than your average road going individual, having done a decent number of HPDE days and a significant amount of autox/ice racing.

Now I know that this will be blasphemous to…

You’re pretty serious about GM products.

Oh yeah my bad. I meant the weather tech sports car championship. Good catch m8. Funny thing is, is I go every year to Road America to watch the IMSA races, haha.

Also, holy crap, this restart is good now that the race is green again. Cayman vs. Mustang, go!

Yes to your first sentence. I can't stand people that pigeon hole themselves as fans of specific cars or types of cars. In general, self-proclaimed car guys are usually insufferable dolts and they're the reason I don't spend more time at race tracks.

You can’t drive a Puffalump.

COTD!

Not me.

Did a knight wear armor over his armor to protect his armor?

Yay NASCAR!

I started to like NASCAR when I stopped being a racing snob and actually made the effort to understand how it work.

Here’s the real video of what happens

I’m also very happy to announce that with this, Maggie is going to be one of Jalopnik’s regular columnists. She spends most of her time writing novels but expect to see a lot more of her writing here soon!